Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Product Pioneer. First to sell the product. By then it was too late.

Silicon Valley 317

Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 317

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. Steve Ballmer: Perform thorough market research before commissioning a new product.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. People looking to drive true change and evolution in the Media Tech sector whether it’s investors, product owners from corporates, or potential partners.

Startup 48

Startup Germany Poland Argentina 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

It is of paramount importance of localize your product – in other words, to give it a local flavor. The state of the nation in terms of production and consumption of goods and services is to become higher than ever and to create jobs for millions of people. Strong education, as well as engineering standards, are mixing with pioneerdom.

Russia 113

Russia China United Kingdom 113

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Everything).

Widget 76

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 76

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. At the same time, I was also working on the product. Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. The US issues 65,000 H1-B work visas every year.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. The old model wasn’t broken.

Startup 80

Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Everything).

Widget 60

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. I had it all set up to a jury-rigged SurveyMonkey - PayPal minimum viable product. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Establish a frame of reference. An energy bar? A diet supplement?

Marketing 115

Marketing Differentiation Widget Search 115

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. That’s it. That’s what we do.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. In nearly every failed startup, the real problem was that customersdidnt want the product. Probably because the product wasa dog, or never seemed likely to be done, or both.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

Online directories are sites that scrape the Internet looking for businesses’ information – at a minimum they’ll include a company’s name, address and phone number (NAP) — to pull into their master database of businesses. Online Business Directories are websites that scrape the Internet looking for information about local businesses.

SEO 28

SEO Aggregator Iowa Search 28

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. These multiple factors can help or hinder a positive, productive and broadly benefiting experience. WWW search engines. Direct contacts, competitor known.

Hiring 57

Hiring Metrics Search Widget 57

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. THE POWER OF OUTSOURCING & CREATING YOUR OWN PRODUCT. Where am I today?

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76